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Das Recycling Atelier und ELLSiI sind Teil des KI-Produktionsnetzwerks der Technischen Hochschule Augsburg.
Das Recycling Atelier und ELLSiI sind Teil des KI-Produktionsnetzwerks der Technischen Hochschule Augsburg.
11.07.2023

ELLSI im Recycling Atelier Augsburg eröffnet: Education and Learning Lab for Sustainability Innovations

Am 13. Juli öffnet das Education and Learning Lab for Sustainability Innovations (ELLSI) im KI-Produktionsnetzwerk der Technischen Hochschule Augsburg seine Tore. Als Teil des Recycling Ateliers sensibilisiert und schult das ELLSI Fachkräfte für die Idee und Praxis der Kreislaufwirtschaft – mit Virtual Reality (VR), Gamification und hands-on Prototyping.

Das Recycling Atelier und das KI-Produktionsnetzwerk der Technischen Hochschule Augsburg wachsen. Das dort angesiedelte Lernlabor „Education and Learning Lab for Sustainability Innovations“ (kurz: ELLSI) ergänzt die technischen Innovationen im KI-Produktionsnetzwerk im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit um Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung – mit besonderem Blick auf die Textilindustrie. So kommen virtuelle Technologien zum Einsatz, um Studierende und Forschende zu vernetzen.

In Planung sind folgende Projekte:
detex – KI-Potenziale zur Sortierung von Alttextilien
Freiraum – Nachhaltige Entscheidungen im VR-Modegeschäft
Prototyping – Mit recyceltem Textil einen neuen Lebenszyklus beginnen
Textilsortierspiel – die virtuelle Challenge um Sortierkapazitäten

 

Am 13. Juli öffnet das Education and Learning Lab for Sustainability Innovations (ELLSI) im KI-Produktionsnetzwerk der Technischen Hochschule Augsburg seine Tore. Als Teil des Recycling Ateliers sensibilisiert und schult das ELLSI Fachkräfte für die Idee und Praxis der Kreislaufwirtschaft – mit Virtual Reality (VR), Gamification und hands-on Prototyping.

Das Recycling Atelier und das KI-Produktionsnetzwerk der Technischen Hochschule Augsburg wachsen. Das dort angesiedelte Lernlabor „Education and Learning Lab for Sustainability Innovations“ (kurz: ELLSI) ergänzt die technischen Innovationen im KI-Produktionsnetzwerk im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit um Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung – mit besonderem Blick auf die Textilindustrie. So kommen virtuelle Technologien zum Einsatz, um Studierende und Forschende zu vernetzen.

In Planung sind folgende Projekte:
detex – KI-Potenziale zur Sortierung von Alttextilien
Freiraum – Nachhaltige Entscheidungen im VR-Modegeschäft
Prototyping – Mit recyceltem Textil einen neuen Lebenszyklus beginnen
Textilsortierspiel – die virtuelle Challenge um Sortierkapazitäten

 

More information:
Recycling Atelier Augsburg ELLSI
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TH Augsburg

Recycled yarn (c) ITA Aachen
05.05.2023

ITA at the ITMA: Smart Circular Economy

"ITA Aachen and ITA Augsburg are part of the ITA Group International Centre for Sustainable Textiles. Experience our textile innovations at two exhibition booths," explains ITA Institute Director Professor Dr. Thomas Gries. "See our ring spinning tester at booth H3-B304, which spins recycled fibres sustainably and individually in a previously impossible fineness. In addition, there is digital yarn monitoring, which enables new market potentials. Get an idea of the Recycling Atelier of ITA Augsburg at booth H3-A207 and see the textile cycle from used textile to solution steps for industrial implementation together with industry partners. Join us on the Walk4Recycling and follow the path from used textile to a new knitted pullover on a tour of the trade fair. This is how we live up to our claim as the ITA Group: sustainable - digital - individual."

"ITA Aachen and ITA Augsburg are part of the ITA Group International Centre for Sustainable Textiles. Experience our textile innovations at two exhibition booths," explains ITA Institute Director Professor Dr. Thomas Gries. "See our ring spinning tester at booth H3-B304, which spins recycled fibres sustainably and individually in a previously impossible fineness. In addition, there is digital yarn monitoring, which enables new market potentials. Get an idea of the Recycling Atelier of ITA Augsburg at booth H3-A207 and see the textile cycle from used textile to solution steps for industrial implementation together with industry partners. Join us on the Walk4Recycling and follow the path from used textile to a new knitted pullover on a tour of the trade fair. This is how we live up to our claim as the ITA Group: sustainable - digital - individual."

ITA Aachen - Digital ring spinning tester for recycled fibres enables spinning of fine yarns with high recycled fibres content
The Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University (ITA) will be exhibiting a digital ring spinning tester, which spins recycled fibres directly and conventionally with a particularly high content of 60-70 percent. Up to now, recycled yarns have mainly been rotor-spun in this blend ratio. This results in rather coarse yarns and is not suitable for finer textiles such as outerwear. Ring spinning of recycled yarns now enables the spinning of finer yarns and thus a higher application level for recycled materials.

A unique selling point of the ITA ring spinning tester is the simultaneous spinning in the direct spinning process from the sliver and in the classic ring spinning process. For this purpose, the strength and elongation of the spun yarn are determined online and digitally for the first time. The real-time measurement allows process parameters and yarn properties to be adjusted iteratively and quickly. The ring spinning tester was upgraded from an existing tester to Industry 4.0 standard and is operated via a tablet. Operation via tablet enables the adjustment of process parameters including online quality monitoring remotely from anywhere in the world.
 
For this purpose, the ring spinning tester is also able to produce fine ring spun yarns. These yarns made from recycled material opens up a multitude of further fields of application for woven and knitted goods. Now, for example, clothing and technical textiles can be made from recycled material, the production of which was not possible before - such as outerwear made from recycled material. The development of new industries and fields of application opens up new market potential for recycled yarns - also and especially for processing in Europe. This creates the opportunity to preserve key technologies and jobs in cost-intensive locations.

ITA Augsburg - Recycling Atelier: Walk4Recycling
The Recycling Atelier of the Institut für Textiltechnik Augsburg gGmbH on stand H3-A207 presents the textile recycling from used textiles into new products via the various process steps and, together with the industrial partners, opens up solution paths for industrial implementation.

Under the headline "Walk4Recycling", a tour of the fair shows the cycle of used textiles from used knitwear into a new knitted pullover via a ring yarn made from a blend of 65 percent recycled cotton and 35 percent virgin polyester. The key innovation here is the high proportion of recycled fibres from post-consumer textiles for a ring yarn of this fineness. Today, mainly coarse rotor yarns for low-quality textiles are spun from these materials. The industrial partners participating in the Walk4Recycling are partners of the Recycling Atelier and contribute with their technologies to the fact that fibre material from old clothes can be processed in various process stages into a yarn of new value and high-quality ready-made garments.

The Walk4Recycling offers visitors the opportunity to experience a complete recycling cycle with the numerous process stages from tearing the old textiles, preparing and spinning the fibres and knitting a new jumper live during the fair. Get detailed information on the mechanical recycling of clothing via QR code, website and flyer about the participating exhibitors and their machines and technologies. A short movie will give you additional insights into the various processes involved in the production of the jumper.

02.03.2023

Recycling Atelier Augsburg and Kelheim Fibres cooperate

Kelheim Fibres, a leading manufacturer of viscose speciality fibres, has joined Recycling Atelier Augsburg. Recycling Atelier Augsburg is a unique centre for research and development in the field of textile recycling. It is located at the Institut für Textiltechnik Augsburg an affiliated institute of Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. The two institutions founded the Recycling Atelier in June 2022 together with twelve partners from the German textile industry.

In the Recycling Atelier, the focus is on the triad of technical and ecological sense as well as economic benefit. In this way, the partners of the Recycling Atelier are standing up against fast fashion, outsourced corporate responsibility and a general decline in raw material quality, which often fuels downcycling - the low-quality reuse - of materials.

Kelheim Fibres, a leading manufacturer of viscose speciality fibres, has joined Recycling Atelier Augsburg. Recycling Atelier Augsburg is a unique centre for research and development in the field of textile recycling. It is located at the Institut für Textiltechnik Augsburg an affiliated institute of Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. The two institutions founded the Recycling Atelier in June 2022 together with twelve partners from the German textile industry.

In the Recycling Atelier, the focus is on the triad of technical and ecological sense as well as economic benefit. In this way, the partners of the Recycling Atelier are standing up against fast fashion, outsourced corporate responsibility and a general decline in raw material quality, which often fuels downcycling - the low-quality reuse - of materials.

As a model factory, the Recycling Atelier Augsburg combines the most important processes of textile recycling and offers holistic and comprehensive research along the value chain," explains Georg Stegschuster, head of the Recycling Atelier Augsburg. The scientists research on all process steps of textile recycling: from material analysis to sorting, preparation and textile processing to sustainable product design. Comprehensive data collection and the use of artificial intelligence as well as innovative materials play a central role.

Kelheim Fibres is a producer of high-quality viscose fibres, which consist of cellulose, the main component of the renewable raw material wood, and are used worldwide for products in areas such as hygiene, textiles, and technical applications.

"In New Business Development as well as Fibre and Application Development, we follow the Open Innovation concept - the cooperation with the Recycling Atelier offers us an ideal platform for this. Here we work with partners to advance sustainability and performance," explains Maik Thiel, project manager at Kelheim Fibres.

Recycled cotton fibres are often very short or of uneven length, which makes further processing of 100 % recycled material a challenge. Adding speciality fibres from Kelheim Fibres should enable the production of high-quality new products, such as nonwovens. In the future, the fibres provided by Kelheim Fibres will also be made from recycled pulp.

Source:

Kelheim Fibres GmbH